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Start with .USTue, 03 Mar 2015 13:25:10 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=Kids.us Education Advisory Committee Publishes Final Reporthttp://www.neustar.us/kids-us-education-advisory-committee-publishes-final-report/
http://www.neustar.us/kids-us-education-advisory-committee-publishes-final-report/#commentsTue, 28 Oct 2014 11:17:46 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1968The Kids.us Education Advisory Committee was convened in April 2014 to consider the ongoing suspension of the kids.us third-level namespace, as well as to contemplate future initiatives and principles through which Neustar can advance positive and educational experiences for kids within the usTLD more broadly.

The Education Advisory Committee comprised the following experts in online safety, education, and children’s media:

The Education Advisory Committee met six times between June and October 2014. Across these meetings, the committee considered questions, including:

Should the kids.us namespace be reinstated with its preexisting policy and operational framework?

What were the experiences of other providers of online educational content, particularly those that sought to operate “walled gardens”?

What changes in online trends and regulations could affect the kids.us namespace?

The committee ultimately recommended that existing policy framework, as well as the internet climate today, made kids.us unworkable and that the namespace should remain suspended. Additionally, the committee recommended operating principles for future consideration of kid-friendly initiatives in .US. These principles included ensuring cost-effectiveness and accessibility, as well as avoiding competition with existing efforts in the online education space.

The full findings of the committee can be found in the Kids.us Education Advisory Committee Final Report. The minutes for the six meetings of the Education Advisory committee are archived here.

]]>http://www.neustar.us/kids-us-education-advisory-committee-publishes-final-report/feed/0Neustar Announces usTLD Rapid Suspensionhttp://www.neustar.us/neustar-announces-ustld-rapid-suspension/
http://www.neustar.us/neustar-announces-ustld-rapid-suspension/#commentsWed, 11 Jun 2014 17:15:31 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1877On July 1, Neustar will become one of the first country-code top-level domains to implement the usTLD Rapid Suspension Procedure (“usRS”). Although this new mechanism has been introduced with the new generic top-level domains approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, it is not widespread within the ccTLD community.

The usRS will provide intellectual property rights holders a faster, more cost-effective mechanism to resolve clear-cut cases of trademark infringement within the usTLD than the existing .us Dispute Resolution Policy (“usDRP”).

Under the usRS, the complainant must demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that:

The domain name(s) in question are identical or confusingly similar to one of its trademarks,

The registrant has no legitimate right or interest in the domain name(s), and

The domain name(s) were registered or are being used in bad faith.

If the National Arbitration Forum (“NAF”), the usRS Provider, determines that a complaint meets these criteria and adheres to all rules and procedures in the usRS Policy Rules and the NAF usRS Supplemental Rules, the complainant will prevail. As remedy, the domain name(s) will be suspended for the remaining registration term. The complainant may extend the suspension for an additional year at his or her expense. The original domain name holder may appeal a usRS decision in favor of the complainant. Further details on the usRS rules and procedures can be found in the usRS Policy Rules.

The usRS provides a quick and cost-effective alternative to the usDRP. The costs of filing a usRS range from $375, for complaints involving up to 14 domains, to $500. Additional fees will apply for reexaminations or appeals. NAF will issue usRS decisions no later than five calendar days following the submission of a response or the expiry of the fourteen-day response period. For a full breakdown of the usRS fees and timeline see the NAF usRS Supplemental Rules.

Unlike in usDRP proceedings, usTLD domain names cannot be transferred as a result of a usRS complaint. Trademark holders seeking ownership of an infringing domain name in the usTLD should continue to use the usDRP to resolve their disputes.

]]>http://www.neustar.us/neustar-announces-ustld-rapid-suspension/feed/0Neustar to Launch usTLD Stakeholder Councilhttp://www.neustar.us/neustar-to-launch-ustld-stakeholder-council/
http://www.neustar.us/neustar-to-launch-ustld-stakeholder-council/#commentsWed, 11 Jun 2014 17:09:47 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1875On February 28, 2014, the United States Department of Commerce awarded Neustar a contract to continue managing .US, the United States Country-Code Top Level Domain (“usTLD”).

In its plan to manage the usTLD, Neustar proposed to create a stakeholder council (“usTLD Stakeholder Council”) to ensure that the usTLD remains a trusted space for all Americans and to facilitate stakeholder input into usTLD policies. Proposed responsibilities of the usTLD Stakeholder Council include recommending policies and improvements, ensuring that the needs registrants are reflected, enhancing the user experience and utility, and discussing emerging DNS issues.

Neustar looks forward to broadening stakeholder participation in policy development for the usTLD. We are eager to work with stakeholders including registrants, civil society, business owners, law enforcement, and more to ensure that the management of the usTLD continues to evolve and reflect the needs of the usTLD community.

In this spirit, Neustar has issued a call for Expressions of Interest (“EoI”) for prospective participants in the usTLD Stakeholder Council. Concurrently, Neustar has issued a Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”), seeking community input regarding the usTLD Stakeholder Council’s proposed composition, guiding principles and policies, operating procedures, and deliverables. Responses to both the call for EoIs and the NOI should be sent to stakeholdercouncil@neustar.us. All EoIs and responses to the NOI are due by July 10, 2014.

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http://www.neustar.us/ustld-overview-of-changes-2014/#commentsTue, 29 Apr 2014 18:04:03 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1772In Feb this year Neustar was awarded the contract to manage the usTLD by the department of Commerce. As per the new contract some changes were made to the implementation rules for the usTLD Dispute Resolution Policy or the usTLD Nexus Dispute Policy. The changes relate to the transition from paper to electronic file handling and add an affirmative duty to Registrars to reply to the dispute providers request for a lock on domain names that are the subject of a pending a complaint.

]]>http://www.neustar.us/ustld-overview-of-changes-2014/feed/0Neustar Seeks Experts for New Education Committee for .usTLDhttp://www.neustar.us/neustar-seeks-experts-for-new-education-committee-for-ustld/
http://www.neustar.us/neustar-seeks-experts-for-new-education-committee-for-ustld/#commentsFri, 28 Mar 2014 13:29:15 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1736On February 28, 2014, Neustar was awarded a contract to manage the .usTLD by the Department of Commerce.

Public Law 107-317, the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002 (Dot Kids Act), requires that the administrator of the .us country code top level domain establish a kids.us domain to serve as a haven for material that promotes positive experiences for children and families using the Internet, provides a safe on-line environment for children, and helps to prevent children from being exposed to harmful material on the Internet. The law envisioned a closed-off, walled garden, in which children could surf in a safe environment. The Act included content restrictions to make the space appropriate for children and included a prohibition on linking outside of the kids.us space.

On June 27, 2012, the National Telecommunications and Information Agency suspended the kids.us domain effective July 27, 2012. At the time, there were only six active websites which were visited monthly by very few individual users. Additionally, all of the websites had far more robust websites in other TLDs. The Agency found that the kids.us domain was not meeting the intended needs for which it had been created by the Congress.

As the past Administrator of kids.us, Neustar has the technical expertise and experience to administer the kids.us domain. Technical, legal and policy documents such as the kids.us Administrator-Registrar Agreement v.2.0, the Content Management Service Terms and Conditions Agreement, and the Kids. US content policy: guidelines and restrictions could be easily modified and used in the revival of a kids.us domain.

Neustar believes that it is in the public interest to not only examine the revival of the kids.us domain, but also to explore a variety of other creative approaches utilizing the usTLD space to better serve children and families.

Neustar is an ardent believer in the need to educate children about digital literacy and STEM fields, but we are not education experts ourselves.

Accordingly, we seek to form a special Education Committee and wish to employ a multistakeholder process to examine the best ways not only to look at the Dot Kids Act and the possible revival of the kids.us domain as established by the law, but also to examine the best ways to promote the goals of the Act. The Internet has undergone massive changes over the last decade which could not have been foreseen at the time the Dot Kids Act was written. We seek to explore what, if any, actions could be taken by Neustar to better educate and protect children in today’s online environment in conjunction with our responsibilities as the Administrator of the usTLD.

Neustar seeks a diverse and experienced group of individuals interested in volunteering to serve on the Education committee. Experts will be chosen from those that express interest to this solicitation as well as from other outreach activities. The selection process is expected to begin immediately and the first meeting of the Education Committee is expected to take place in May, 2014.

Expressions of interest from individuals should be sent to Terri.Claffey@neustar.biz, along with the individual’s C.V. and other material explaining the contribution the party hopes to make to the Education Committee.

]]>http://www.neustar.us/neustar-seeks-experts-for-new-education-committee-for-ustld/feed/0Neustar Selected to Continue Administering the .US Domainhttp://www.neustar.us/neustar-selected-to-continue-administering-the-us-domain/
http://www.neustar.us/neustar-selected-to-continue-administering-the-us-domain/#commentsWed, 05 Mar 2014 13:27:13 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1734The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded Neustar the contract to continue administering the .US Top Level Domain (TLD), the official country code domain of the United States. Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first selected the company to build and manage the new domain.

“We are honored that the Department of Commerce has selected Neustar to continue managing America’s domain name that millions of businesses, non-profit organizations and consumers use to manage their online presence,” said Lisa Hook, Neustar President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are committed to continuing to provide exceptional service that is reliable, stable and secure in the increasingly complicated digital environment.”

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http://www.neustar.us/kickstarting-your-business-website/#commentsSun, 12 Jan 2014 08:00:37 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1625Great domain name for your business, check! Web hosting so you can get your site up and running, check! So now what? Once you’ve checked these off the list, there are a few other things you should make sure to include on your site:

“The tradition of USA Track & Field that represents not only national pride, but also athletic excellence and competitiveness, and is something we want to associate our brand with,” said Alex Berry, Neustar Senior Vice President.

The course, which wound through historic Old Town Alexandria, lent itself to blistering fast times, including a world best and an American record in the women’s 12k. >> Read the full article here.

]]>http://www.neustar.us/inaugural-us-road-race-promotes-running-and-the-american-tld/feed/0Neustar Announces Partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE)http://www.neustar.us/neustar-announces-partnership-with-the-american-chamber-of-commerce-executives-acce/
http://www.neustar.us/neustar-announces-partnership-with-the-american-chamber-of-commerce-executives-acce/#commentsFri, 04 Oct 2013 14:33:54 +0000http://www.neustar.us/?p=1698Partnership to Encourage Small Businesses to Get Online and Kickstart America with a .US Domain Name

Neustar is pleased to announce a new partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE), the only national association serving the professional development needs of chamber professionals throughout the United States and Canada.

As the administrator of the .US top level domain name and an information services and analytics company, Neustar will join forces with the ACCE to educate American small businesses around the importance of getting online with a .US domain name. Together, Neustar and the ACCE will offer chambers and their members value-added services coupled with a .US address to maximize their online presence.

“We’re excited to work with an organization that shares Neustar’s same mission – kickstarting America, one small business at a time,” said Jim Rogers, Vice President of Marketing at Neustar. “In partnership with ACCE, we look forward to expanding our reach in helping businesses boost their online ROI with a .US address.”

By combining Twitter and Google Maps, MobileEats.us tracks all the most popular food trucks in Nashville and puts them on the map. With geolocation data from truck tweets, visitors can quickly locate their cuisine of choice at the time they are ready to dine.